US Congress has ignored President Donald Trump’s demand to fund his controversial campaign pledge of building a wall along the US-Mexico border in the first 100 days of the administration
The leaders in the Republican-controlled Congress struck a more than one-trillion-dollar budget deal on Monday to avert a government shutdown until September, but fell short of allocating cash for Trump’s proposed border wall.
The agreement reached after weeks of tense negotiations, however, would allocate an additional 1.5 billion dollars for border security, which one congressional aide described as “the most robust border security increase in roughly a decade.”
The lawmakers in the House of Representatives and Senate are expected to approve the deal in the coming days and send it to the White House for the final signature.
